Ela Novita Sari (2012) THE CORRELATION BETWEEN PREPOSITIONS MASTERY AND ABILITY IN WRITING RECOUNT TEXT OF THE FIRST YEAR STUDENTS AT STATE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL 1 XIII KOTO KAMPAR KAMPAR REGENCY. Skripsi thesis, Universitas Islam Negeri Sultan Syarif Kasim Riau.

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Abstract

Based on the writer’s preliminary study, it was found that most of the students’ writing ability was still less than enough. This problem was caused some factors. For example, some of students could not use prepositions in their writing, So the writer was interested in carrying out the research about this problem. The research was administered at State Junior High School 1 XIII Koto Kampar Regency. The subject of the research was the first year students at Islamic State Junior High School 1 XIII Koto Kampar Regency, and the object of this research was to find out the correlation between Prepositions mastery and recount text writing ability at the first year students of State Junior High School 1 XIII Koto Kampar. This research design is correlational study. The population of this research was 45 students and the sample was all of the population. In collecting the data, the writer used test for both of the variables in this research. Before the test of preposition was given to the sample the researcher gave the try out. The writer also gave the test of recount text writing ability. In analyzing the data, the scores were analyzed by using Pearson Product Moment Formula by using SPSS 16.0 version. From the research findings, the score of Pearson Product Moment (r) is 0.306 and it compared to r table at 5%, (0.288<0.306). It can be concluded that H0 was rejected and Ha was accepted. The conclusion are that, there is a significant correlation between prepositions mastery and recount text writing ability at the first year students of State Junior High School 1 XIII Koto Kampar Kampar Regency, the students’ preposition mastery was categorized into enough level, and the students’ Recount text writing ability was categorized into enough level too. Finally, the suggestions are that writing Recount text should be focused on using prepositions in order that the generic structure and generic feature of the text can be achieved.

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